xvi, 1023 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

From 1096 to 1500, European Christians fought to recreate the Middle East, Muslim Spain, and the pagan Baltic in the image of their God. The Crusades are perhaps both the most familiar and most misunderstood phenomena of the medieval world, and here Christopher Tyerman seeks to recreate, from the ground up, the centuries of violence committed as an act of religious devotion

Includes bibliographical references (pages 923-990) and index

The First Crusade -- The origins of Christian holy war -- The summons to Jerusalem -- The march to Constantinople -- The road to the Holy Sepulchre -- Frankish Outremer -- The foundation of Christian Outremer -- The Latin states -- East is east and east is west : Outremer in the twelfth century -- The Second Crusade -- A new path to salvation? : Western Christendom and holy war 1100-1145 -- God's bargain : summoning the Second Crusade -- 'The spirit of the pilgrim God' : fighting the Second Crusade -- The Third Crusade -- 'A great cause for mourning' : the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade -- The call of the Cross -- To the siege of Acre -- The Palestine War 1191-2 -- The Fourth Crusade -- 'Ehud's sharpened sword' -- The Fourth Crusade : preparations -- The Fourth Crusade : diversion -- The expansion of crusading -- The Albigensian Crusades 1209-29 -- The Fifth Crusade 1213-21 -- Frontier crusades 1 : conquest in Spain -- Frontier crusades 2 : the Baltic and the North -- The defence of Outremer -- Survival and decline : the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century -- The defence of the Holy Land 1221-44 -- Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer 1244-91 -- The later crusades -- The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages -- The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages

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